The Chelsea Commercial. (Chelsea, Indian Terr.), Vol. 10, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, September 30, 1904 Page: 4 of 8
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THE COMMERCIAL
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Thin year, the Horul hull
at the fair grounds wan en-
tirely too ninall to contain
the exhibit*, and if there in
half wuy justice done to the
people who comjiorfe the Fair
Association, ami the people
who make exhibit*, a new
hall will have to l e added to
the old one. The ladies de-
partments alone will more
than till the present hall if
half justice is done to dis-
play, and to remedy the
trouble.
The Commercial holds 3
shares in the Fair Associa-
tion, and it is willing to pay
upon those shares an assess-
ment^ $1.00 each, and if
needs be #2.00 each, the
money to lie used to build
another exhibit hull. There
The Commercial has been
informed that the owners of
the land are iierfeotly wil-
ling to make tlio lease, and
the quarter stretch and other
portions of ground not oc-
cupied by buildings and
Tte
There vm never a Itetter out
look for any town anywhere tlmn
Chelsea ha* tulay. It commands
a trail* area of aliout one thorn*,
and square mile# of farming terri
tory, and scattered all over tlitM
tracks can lie fanned. Next i VftM| nri,ft j„ „ ,^1 >Mit that him
Saturday, let s take the mat-|n()( |weil prosjHwted sufficiently
ter up at the board meeting. tu t«*ll just where the l* t npoU
—are, but enough ia known to war.
With coal and gas at her
doors, Chelsea will certainly
make a solid manufacturing
town in a very few years.
That is one reason the busi-
ness men of Chelsea sub-
scrilted the bonus to the Mc-
Clelland Coal A Mining Co.,
to get them to put their of-
fices here and make this
town the base of operations
in the coal field. It means
factories for Chelsea us well
as ooal mines.
The Commercial has been
informed that a company
with a half million dollurs
is coming to this locality for
, , . ,investment and that in the
were b><> shares of stock Lvent of its landing on Chel-
taken when the Asssociation !w,a gojj a ]ftrge brick
was organized, and an as-
sessment of one dollar each,
would raise $150.00, which
would buy the lumber and
shingles, and the gate re-|
building to cost $20,000 will
be erected on .Sixth street.
If it comes, it will not come
with a proposition for a
bonus, either, so those that
| are bonus sore need not
any alarm.
feel
With the advantage of
three trunk lines of railway,
Chelsea will shine and
.flourish as no town ever
featurei flourished. It will not be a
ceipts at the fair next year
will pay for the work and
extras. There is not a share
holder that would not do his
or her full duty to keep the
fair going and make of it a
permanent institution that
will each year be a
of the town s life. I^et s be- j mushroom growth either, it
gin to talk the matter up, will ^ a soHd growth that
now, while the iron is hot, wj]j stav with the town, and
and while people have not j that will be backed up by
forgotten the trouble had j ^he growth of the country,
this year by a crowd and not .
room in the old hall. There The man who is always
are numbers of progressive i making evfes at the honesty
people here who have no in- nf others, will bear watching
terest in the shares of stock himself. Put this down in
who will pay money out of | your pipe and smoke it,
their pockets to keep the en-'pjease
terprise going, and making ——-—
the country better. The knocker and the grum-
E very body is well pleased
with this year's fair, and all
are willing to try it again,
and of course, judging from
the way the exhibits have
grown, it will be necessary
to have a new floral or rather
exhibit hall for ne>it year.
Also it will be necessary
have a lease from the owners
of the land for a term of
wars, but an agricultural
lease can be had by the As-
sociation or some one in
trust for the Association,
and go ahead with the fair.
bier never push and always
weigh heavy because they
are dead weights.
Always talk up your town,
and you will be on the road
to the home of the good.
Railroad Photo Oar Studio now
to | at Chelsea. Are giving 10 days of
special reduced rates, bee sam-
ples at studio far at depot, 4 years
spent in the territory. One photo
button free with small photos.
See bills. E. A. Johnson & Co.,
direct from St. Louis.
Prescriptions filled as they
should lie at Chelsea Phaniacy.
rant the assertion that it ia of the
lieat, and that Moon there will lie
many shafts aunk and many
thousand men employed at work
taking out the product.
It ia not ainiaa to any that (he
McClelland Coal & Mining Com.
pany ia now preparing to begin
work to locate the apot for a shaft
somewhere near the Ratcliff farm
aouth of town, and the drill ma-
chinery ia now enroute and by the
time ink ia dry on the paper this
week it will have been unloaded
in Chelsea. This company haa
agreed to put in no commiaaary
store in connection with their
mines, and will pay their men in
Chelsea not less thou once a
month, and the probability ia that
they will pay twice a mouth.
This will mean a payroll of about
£10.100 a month in a couple of
years.
The Cherokee Oil & Gas Com-
pany have about a hundred wells
on their lease west of town, and
lire producing aliout 2,300 barrels
per day, and have a capacity to do
more, and will do so as soon as the
Standard Oil Company gets pipe
line to work between this point
and Neodesha Kansas where their
refineries are located. The pipe
has been put in and buried, nnd
the pumping machinery will he
here in a few days. After that it
is confidently expected that the
C. O. & G. people will produce
something like 5,000 barrrels per
day.
On the Bibles place nearer the
river, R. C. Adams has a lease
approved and drilling has com-
menced on it, in fact he has leases
on about 8,000 acres there and
Horace M- Adams has given a
lease on 8,000 acres that will he
worked in a few months. On the
farm of James Mehlin, the Supe-
rior Oil & Gas Company has he-
gun work, and have done pros-
pecting enough to know what
they have. It is only a matter of
months till this country will be
full of oil holes, and from each
hole will spout a black stream that
will be life blood of progress in
this vicinity. Summing up, there j
are about 28,000 acres of land that
has approved leases, and the Boyd I
& McDonald holdings will add
about 8,000 more when they are
approved.
The Oklahoma & Cherokee Cen-
tral road is building, and will
aoou I mi complete from Pryor
Creek to Nowata, connecting the
town* at Chelsea, Pryor Creek anil
Nowata with the Frisco. Miaaouri
Pacific and M K. & T. railway*,
four of the liest systems ill the
United State*. Tliia means three
trunk line road* for each town,
and (he whipping fncilitiea of the
country for farm products can't lie
excelled.
At the town of Chelsea alone,
last year, there was shipped ovor
the Frisco, 20,000 tons of hay, W
(XX) huahela of wheat, a half thou*
and bushels of corn, and of mi*'
cellnneoiis product*, over 400 car
IomU. This ia a great showing
for tliia part of (he country, and
withiu a few veare these figures
will lie thrihhfed*ievcral times.
Chelsea has never had a boom,
but it has had a steady growth
from a little station on tlio Frisco,
a half doceu yeara ago, to a town
of 1,500 people, and still growing
anil new husinesacontinually com-
ing here.
There are now thirty good,
atronghuaiuess firms here, liesides
the Imnks, of which there arc two,
and alao two trust companies.
By a recent act of congress, the
freedmen can sell their realty, mid
adopted white citizens can do
likewise, and the Indian can do
so, if he is more than half blood
white, by having the consent of
the Secretary of the Interior.
There is not a day that there are
not from one to a dozen white
farmers here, from the states look-
ing for homes on which to make
farms and settle for life. The soil
is exceedingly productive, and all
who have seen the corn grow here
pronounce it a marvel, of size and
quality. The stock are of the
best, a few range cattle can now
be found. They have lieen sold
off and grades of other breeds put
in their place. This is the lie-
ginning of an era that it will take
a life time to see it terminate, nnd
is the place for a young man to
come, and grow up as the country
grows. The Commercial feels
proud to be in Chelsea.
¥
WANTED—A team of bugi
horses. Call at Johnson's R.
Photo Car.
A prescription should he filled
in every sense of the word. Lane
never suljstitutes, nor bungles in
compounding.
J. V. GUINN, Painter.
Prices For Work. By
the Day, with helper,
$5.00 per day.
Without Helper, $3.00 per
day.
Job Work, $3.00 p e r
square for three coat
work ; $2.00 per square
for two coat work, and
$1.00 per square for one
eoat work.
ALL WORK DONE IN FIRST
CLASS STYLE.
List of Awards.
(Concluded from patf* 1.)
algebra, 1st, George Arnold,
2nd, Arnett Bearden, work iu
algebra, 7th grade, 1st, Mary Ar-
nold, 2nd, Florence Golilke,
compoMition, 1st, Mary McSpad-
den, 2nd, Myrtle Childeni, arith-
metic, 1st, Minnie Joluison, 2nd,
Sula (^uinii, history, lat, Roy
Byrd, 2nd, Sid Rtilatrta, 7tfi
Irade coiuiHMition, 1st, Russell
'almoiir, 2nd, Zoe McSpadden,
transposition, 1st, May McSpad-
don, 2nd, Myrtle Childers, exam-
ination tablet, 4th grade, 1st,
Mary Roberts, 2nd, Kiln Bell,
examination tablet, 5th grade,
1st, Waldemar Dannenburg 2ud.
Bahy Snow-
Robert D. Taylor, 1st, Edgar
Martin, 2nd.
Extra premium, given by W. G.
Milam & Sons, bread mixer, won
by Mrs. John H. Jones, for the
liest loaf of light bread.
RACES, FOR THE THREE
DAYS.
Fiust Day—
1st raw, half mile dash, two-
year-olds, six entries. 1st money
was won by Flora Vogol, 2nd by-
Dolly Vardeu, aud 3d by Gym-
nast.
Second Race—
Derby, 12 entries, 1st money
was won by Little Louise, 2nd
by Frank Stewart, and 3d by
Alice Holland.
(Third race was declared off.)
Second Day—
1st race, half mile run, 11 en-
tries, 1st money was won by-
John Davis, 2nd by Mabel M,
and 3d by Alice Roosevelt.
Second Race—
Half mile pace, hest two in
three, three entries, 1st money
was won by Ashbert Adams, 2nd
by Irene Cox, and 3d by Nellie S.
Third Race
Five-eighths, running, nine en-
tries, 1st money was won by Za-
ma, 2>ul by W. C. John, and 3d
by Virginia girl.
Third Day—
1st race, three-eighths, running,
eight entries, 1st money was
won by Buck, 2nd by Beans^
and 3d by Nick. Ice.
Second Race—
Half mile and fifty yards, eight
entries, 1st money was won by
Frank Stewart, 2nd by John
Davis, and 3d by Zama. •*
Third Race—
Three fourths of a mile for
horses not first or second at this
meet, eight entries, 1st money
was won by Alice Holland, 2nd
by Dinkie Davis, and 3d by
Virginia Girl.
Fourth Race—
Half mile, eight entries, for
horses not first, second or third
at this meet, and for horses not
entered for any race at this
meet, 1st money was won by
David Nation, 2nd by Billy
Strachino, and 3d by Tom Star.
Granulated sugar, shipped in
barrells, guaranteed not to con
tain any dirt, oil or trash of any-
kind, such as you will usually find
in sack sugar. 10 lbs for $1.00 at
Bishop & Bishop's.
Corn is coming in and you had better get a new W agon before you break the old one
down. We have 'em.
We wish to call special
attention to our line of
Builders'Hardware. We
are now in' better shape
to supply your wants
than ever before, and
anyone anticipating
building will do well to
see us.
We have just received a
large assortment of Chry-
solite Ware and and are
making some interesting
prices. We also have a
complete line of Nickel
Ware. If you are from
Missouri, we can show
you.
Well, When it Comes to Stoves, We are on Deck with the Goods, and Don't You Doubt It We Know Good Stoves.
W e have the finest line of heating stoves ever shown in Chelsea. Especial attention is call-
to the celebrated Round Oak ana Cole's Hot Blast, neither of these stoves need a recom-
mendation, we make no excuses for either of them. If you want a stove that will keep fire,
we have it. Cole's Hot Blast is guaranteed to keep fire 24 hours, and we will stand behind
the guarantee. W e say "keep fire," we carry the word's full meaning. "KEEP FIRE."
W. O. MILAM & SONS.
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Quinn, J. W. The Chelsea Commercial. (Chelsea, Indian Terr.), Vol. 10, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, September 30, 1904, newspaper, September 30, 1904; Chelsea, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc175073/m1/4/: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.